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RESTORATION ECOLOGY CAPSTONE II:
ENVIR/ESRM/BES/TESC 463
Winter 2010 Professors: Kern Ewing, Jim Fridley, Buck Banks & Warren Gold
TA: Rodney Pond
Time: Fridays - Entire class meeting 1-3PM
- Scheduled half-hour team/instructor meetings 1230-330PM
- No meetings
Team Meeting Schedule:
1230 - PC oaks
100 - Cotton Hill
130 - Earth Sanctuary
200 - Madrona Woods
230 - Island Grove
300 - Yesler Creek
Location: Meetings will be held in Douglas Classroom at UWBG/CUH directions map
UW tax ID #s for donation letters: federal tax ID: 91-6001537, state tax ID: 178-019-988
DATE |
TOPIC |
MEETING |
READINGS |
TASKS |
ASSIGNMENTS DUE |
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Jan 9 |
project status presentation (1 hr) planting design workshop (1 hr) |
entire class 1-3PM | draft work plan materials estimate |
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Jan 16 |
bioengineering (1 hr) planting plan draft exerecise (1 hr) |
entire class 1-3PM | draft work plan materials estimate |
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Jan 23 |
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team/instructors | final work plan materials estimate |
draft work plan on class bulletin board & to clients |
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Jan 30 |
none | final work plan | Materials estimate on class bulletin board Weds, Jan 28 DWP peer review |
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Feb 6 |
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team/instructors | Final work plan on class bulletin board & to clients | ||
Feb 13 |
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none | |||
Feb 20 |
benchmarks & performance standards |
entire class 1-3PM | benchmarks | ||
Feb 27 |
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none | benchmarks | ||
Mar 6 |
team/instructors | benchmarks | |||
Mar 13 |
none | benchmarks |
RESOURCES |
| Technical writing |
| General resources |
Warren Gold's Web Resources Warren has a list of restoration resources. Check it out. |
King Conservation District Hosts a yearly bare root plant sale and has extensive information on natural resource conservation; plants, soils, wildlife and more |
| Restoration Guidebooks |
Washington State Department of Fish & Wildlife Stream Habitat Restoration Guide - 2004 Massive. Chock full of appendices on all manner of technical details. Fear it, love it! |
| Invasive Control |
KC Noxious weed best management practices technical advice on invasive control by species! |
| Plant community references |
Plant associations of the Washington's Puget Trough Ecoregion Describes in detail the natural plant associations of lowland Puget Sound - excellent for finding a reference community for your site and determining appropriate species |
Plant associations of balds and bluffs of western Washington Same as above but for balds & bluffs |
Preliminary classification of native, low elevation freshwater wetland vegetation in western Washington Not available online as pdf. Ask Kern or I to borrow a copy. |
| Plants |
KC Native Plant Nursery List Handy list of native plant nurseries in W.WA |
KC Native Plant Salvage Program Donate your time as a volunteer and get free plants! |
Our best local nurseries - ALWAYS call for availability first! Don't send in a 'cold' order and expect to get what you want! |
Frosty Hollow Ecological Restoration (seed source) ph.360.579.2332 |
Judd Creek Nursery Has extensive native stock, check with John when the others are sold out! |
Pilchuck Tree Farm No website - they grow bare root conifers for re-forestation. Good local genetic stock. |
| Bioengineering/erosion control |
WASHDOT Bioengineering website Awesome! One stop knowledge base for the subject |
| Geotextiles/Planting Supplies |
Northwest Geosynthetics Geotextiles & erosion control fabrics |
Steuber Distributing Horticultural Supplies |
| Soil amendments |
Pacific Topsoils Compost, bark mulches, custom blended soil amendments |
Salmon Bay Sand & Gravel Sand & gravel - duh! |
| Woodchips, Cardboard & other free stuff |
King County Industrial Materials Exchange Find amazing free materials - burlap coffee sacks, cardboard, hazelnut shells, woody debris, coffee grounds, etc. |
Any Local Arborist/Tree Service - free woodchips |
Craig's List People often advertise free woody debris, woodchips, cardboard, plants, coffee sacks, etc. Click the 'free' link under 'for sale' |
Any State Liquor Store - free cardboard |
Benchmarking resources |
| Implementation Procedures for the Habitat Conservation Plan Riparian Forest Restoration Strategy Washington State Department of Natural Resources' |
Restoration Ecology special issue on Riparian Restoration Many great articles here in this edition of the journal. Link may only work when you are signed on to a school computer or logged in from home on the UW libraries site |
Standards for riparian forest restoration Government document from British Columbia. Contains this useful link: Machmer, M and C. Steeger. 2002. Effectiveness Monitoring Guidelines for Ecosystem Restoration. |
The Evaluation of Wetland and Riparian Restoration Projects A handy guide from the Alaska state Department of Fish & Game |
WSDOT Benchmarks for Woody Vegetation in Wetlands The table extracted from this document: Establishing Appropriate Benchmarks for Site THIS is what we mean by developing benchmarks for your projects. A MUST read. |
Ecological Performance Standards for Wetland Mitigation NatureServe report to the EPA, 2008 |
Volunteer management |
Winter Quarter Grading
You will be graded as a team based on three assignments; draft work plan, materials estimate, and final work plan. In addition teams will be graded on their overall preparedness for meetings with the instructors. Individually you will be graded on comments on the draft work plan.Each team assignment will be evaluated by the instructors and TA and receive a score reached by consensus. Individual grades for the quarter will be calculated using peer evaluations as outlined on the peer evaluation form in your autumn course packet. The grade distribution is as follows:
Assignment |
Percent of grade |
Due date |
draft work plan |
20 |
Jan 23 |
peer review of work plan |
5 |
Jan 28 |
materials estimate |
20 |
Jan 30 |
final work plan |
50 |
Feb 6 |
meeting preparedness |
5 |
All quarter |
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